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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Sheriffs Prepare to Abandon Citizens to Federal Gun Grab

In the wake of the highly questionable surge in school shootings and the
long-awaited gun grabbing effort being promoted by the President,
lawmakers, and the mainstream media, hundreds of American sheriff’s have
now gone on the record to state publicly that they will not enforce any
new gun laws such as the ones being proposed in the halls of the U.S.
Congress.

While the fact that such grassroots political pressure exists in an amount that would warrant
such statement by sheriffs all across the country, the fact also
remains that many of these public officials are merely cashing in on an
exploitable situation to score political approval from their
constituents – political approval for a stance they never intend to
honor. This much is apparent to anyone who is even a casual observer of
political discourse or the development of the overarching agenda inside
the United States and elsewhere in the world.

Matthews’ conversion of Kershaw County into a virtual police state, as
well as his continued attack on all things free, should thus have raised
the suspicions as to the sincerity of many of the sheriffs who had
attached their names to the “Will Not Enforce” list regarding the latest
attempts at eliminating the Second Amendment.

Yet, considering the positions and statements made by so many other
sheriffs, Matthews own position was much more tepid when it came to
actually defending Constitutional rights, a task which is clearly not
the strong suit of his department and administration.

Indeed, Matthews’ position was that he was not “going to take your guns,” is an eerily similar claim which was also made by Barack Obama.

Matthews stated,
"I’m not going to get rid of mine. I don’t have a problem with assault
weapon owners who follow the law. My problem is with thugs who should be
in jail who get their hands on guns.”

Of course, at issue is the fact that if new gun laws are passed banning
assault weapons, assault weapons owners will no longer be following the
law. This is why Matthews and other sheriffs were asked the question as
to whether or not they would enforce such laws to begin with.

Matthews went on to ask South Carolina Attorney General
Alan Wilson for his opinion on the coming Federal gun grab.
Essentially, Matthews requested AG Wilson to explain to him his
responsibility as Sheriff when faced with an unconstitutional law.

Still, Matthews stated that he does not believe sheriffs can stop federal agents from enforcing these laws in his jurisdiction.

“A lot of sheriffs want to be able to fall back on what the AG says on
what we lawfully have to do or don’t have to do,” Matthews said.

That opinion has finally arrived.
Unfortunately, it confirms the weakness of state governments as well as
the complete disregard for Constitutional, civil, and human rights at
the federal, state, and local levels.

According to Attorney General Wilson, if federal law enforcement
officers attempt to enforce unconstitutional gun laws or even confiscate
existing weapons, then neither state law nor state law enforcement
officials can stand in the way. Going further, Wilson suggests that, if
state or local law enforcement officials do attempt to impede federal
assaults on the rights of South Carolinians, these state law enforcement
officials would themselves be subject to criminal prosecution.

Yet
Wilson’s opinion goes even further than stating that state and local
law enforcement are unable to actually protect the rights of their
citizens from federal assaults, it claims that federal agents are
granted a type of immunity from state prosecution even if they are
clearly violating Constitutional rights.

The opinion states that “federal agents are immune from state
prosecution even when their conduct violated internal agency regulations
or exceeded their express authority.”

This means that an agent could come to your home, break into your home,
ransack the place, seize anything, all without a warrant and he would be
immune from state prosecution or even interference with his ransacking.

KCP continues by writing,

Instead of protecting citizens sheriffs, with the AG’s blessing, will
stand down and let it happen. Matthews has been quoted saying 'I’m not
going to take your guns' but he did not tell the people he will instead
stand by and watch as federal agents seize weapons. In fact if a citizen
was to refuse to give up his weapons to federal agents the sheriff
would be forced to protect that federal agent from any action impeding
the enforcement of federal law.

Yet, where Wilson’s opinion truly falls apart is his statement “…that
the Department (Kershaw County Sheriff’s dept.) should neither interfere
with nor otherwise attempt to impede federal law enforcement officers
as they perform their lawful duties to enforce federal laws, and who act
necessary and proper within federal authority.”

Simply reading this statement out of context would not ordinarily
provide any reason for concern. Indeed, no department should interfere
or attempt to impede federal law enforcement simply attempting to
perform their lawful duties. However, this is precisely the issue.

Again, would some sort, any sort, of gun confiscation at a state or
federal level be 'lawful'? Think about it like this, if the federal
government passed a law requiring every American to sign over their
property would federal agents coming to remove you from your home be a
part of their 'lawful duties' and would that be 'necessary and proper'?

Even when discussing the repercussions of interfering with federal law
enforcement agents who are carrying out unconstitutional laws, Wilson,
citing the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution, states,

…under the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution, neither
state law nor state law officials may interfere with or otherwise impede
federal law enforcement officers as they perform their lawful duties.
We further advise that conduct intending to impede the discharge of the
lawful duties of federal law enforcement officials may expose such
persons to criminal liability.

Indeed,
while Wilson and sheriffs like Jim Matthews have interpreted, heard,
and repeated exactly what they wanted to hear, the operative phrase in
this statement is “lawful duties.” What is so concerning here, is that
elected officials who are supposed to be well versed in the law and who
are tasked with evaluating and enforcing that law for the benefit and
protection of the citizens of South Carolina can interpret the passage
and enforcement of laws eviscerating the Second Amendment, even to the
point of gun confiscation, as a “lawful duty” of federal agents. Thus,
one must ask themselves if these agents of the State are truly as
interested in upholding the law as they may pretend to be.

Of course, as I mentioned earlier, no one who was even vaguely familiar
with Sheriff Jim Matthews was truly fooled into believing that he ever
intended to stand up for the rights of Kershaw County residents.

Indeed, Sheriff Matthews and the overwhelming majority (most likely all)
American sheriffs are enforcing unconstitutional gun laws on a daily
basis. While the cries of the need to “enforce the gun laws we already
have” may seem reasonable, the fact is that these gun laws are
themselves unconstitutional.

Unfortunately, while many of these sheriffs may very well have the best
interest of their citizens at heart, and may very well mean what they
say in regards to their refusal to enforce any new federal gun laws, the
reality is that they have no problem enforcing similarly
unconstitutional gun laws today or even caging an entirely peaceful
person for years simply because that person is in possession of a
harmless plant.

As KCP state in their article,

The sheriff, duly elected by the people, has as his one and only job to
protect the individual rights of every person within the county. That is
his only duty. Everything he is supposed to do is an effort to help
residents protect their rights. Sheriffs should be training residents
and promoting that every citizen be armed and ready to defend themselves
and their neighbors from violators of those rights. These duties do not
however stop when the federal government comes knocking, in fact that
is when the sheriff is needed most. If your sheriff says he cannot or
will not stop federal agents from coming for your guns he is not
performing his duty and should be removed, by force if necessary, and if
he won’t, go get out the tar and feathers and make a chicken out of
him. County residents will be left with little choice indeed if their
sheriff will not stand to protect them. South Carolinians should be very
concerned as this opinion, statements by many sheriffs, and the strings
that now tie sheriffs hands, leave them without any protection from a
tyrannical government save what they can provide for themselves.

The writing is on the wall, tyranny is coming like a storm on the
horizon. The battle lines are being drawn. Your sheriff, if he is like
these, is not your friend -- in fact, is now a partner with the despotic
federal government.

We must always support law enforcement when they choose to make the
right decision. We must express our support for any sheriff that truly
intends to stand up to the federal or state governments in the event
that they attempt to use their own agents for the purpose of violating
our rights.

However, let us not fool ourselves into believing we are witnessing a
law enforcement revolution of freedom. Make no mistake about it, we are
alone in this fight.

Brandon Turbeville is an author out of Florence, South Carolina. He
has a Bachelor's Degree from Francis Marion University and is the author
of three books, Codex Alimentarius -- The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies, and Five Sense Solutions and Dispatches From a Dissident. Turbeville
has published over 190 articles dealing on a wide variety of subjects
including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties.
Brandon Turbeville's podcast Truth on The Tracks can be found every
Monday night 9 pm EST at UCYTV. He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at) gmail.com.

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